IIMA PGPX Program

Planning to apply to IIM A’s One Year MBA (PGPX)? Then this page should be your Bible/ Gita/ Quran. 

Below you will find a comparison between all past Classes of the PGPX on critical parameters such as applications received, applicants called for interviews, average GMAT, work experience and more. 

Key Highlights

• Economic uncertainty over the past years seems to have impacted the number of applications – they are down to 690 as compared to a high of 1352 applications in 2008-09.
• The acceptance ratio in 2014-15 was  12.3%, in the ballpark for an MBA programme at top global B-Schools – for a comparison, Harvard averages a 10-11% acceptance ratio over the years.
• The acceptance ratio in 2014-15 was lower as compared to that for 2009-10, the year that recorded a peak in applications. The ratio for 2009-10 was 6.04% perhaps making IIM A’s One Year MBA the toughest MBA programme in the world to gain entry to. But doesn’t the PGP programme at IIM A hold that record with over 2 lakh applicants every year? Not the way we see it. Read this article in Business Standard authored by Shikhar Mohan, Founder, OneYearMBA.co.in for more on why comparisons between PGP and PGPX acceptance rates can be misleading and why PGPX’s acceptance rates have a higher correlation with that of MBA programmes (one-year and two-year ) at B-Schools in Europe and USA. 
• The average GMAT score that seemed to be on the up and up till 2009-10 (728 in 2008-09 and 721 in 2009-10) and  has taken a breather and a come down to a more applicant friendly 705-711 range over the last few years. This is not necessarily a bad thing. As used to we are in India in equating high scores with high ability, the GMAT is just one indicator of a candidate’s capability in the admissions to MBA programmes globally – thankfully the same is true for PGPX.
• A possible reason for the drop in GMAT could be the rising age of the average PGPX applicant – the average applicant age has risen from 33 in 2008-09, the year in which the average GMAT score stood at 728, as compared to 34 in 2014-15.

PGPX:   All  Batch Comparative Stats
Parameter	PGPX-I (2006-07)	PGPX-II (2007-08)	PGPX-III (2008-09)	PGPX-IV (2009-10)	PGPX-V (2010-11)	PGPX-VI (2011-12)	PGPX-VII (2012-13)	PGPX-VIII (2013-14)	PGPX-IX (2014-15)
Total Applications received	773 (F 34)	849 (F 40)	1352 (F 122)	1323 (F 86)	982 (F 73)	908 (F 63)	942 (F 93)	661 (F 93)	690 (F 67)
Called for Interviews	232	328	325	366	246	244	251	247	230
Attended Interviews	208	313	299	330	228	220	243	238	216
Batch Size	60	72	78	80	86	101	85	85	85
Female	5	4	9	2	6	6	6	12	13
International Students	6	8	9	8	6	7	6	12	3
Residing Abroad (5 to 8 countries)	25	21	21	20	36	40	31	24	21
Higher Degree Holders (Master’s, Professional)	30	35	43	35	42	45	37	37	34
Engineers	49	51	58	56	55	82	65	68	71
IIT / NIT  graduates	17	23	13	17	25	28	20	20	18
GMAT	699	695	728	721	712	714	717	711	705
Age	32	33 yrs	33 yrs	33 yrs	33 yrs	34 yrs	34 yrs	34 yrs	34 yrs
International Work  Exp	3 yrs 4 m	3 yrs	4 yrs  6 m	4 yrs  9 m	4 yrs  4 m	4 yrs 7 m	3 yrs 2 m	3 yrs 3 m	3 yrs 0 m
Total Work Experience	9 yrs	9 yrs	10 yrs	10 yrs	10 yrs	10 yrs	10 yrs 5 m	10 yrs 2 m	9 yrs 8 m
Sector Profile(%)
BPO	0	0	1	3	1	2	3	1	0
Energy/Power	0	3	2	0	1	4	1	4	8
Financial Service	5	8	3	11	7	10	7	11	9
FMCG	1	3	1	1	4	0	0	0	3
Govt. Engg.	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
Govt. Services	2	2	0	2	1	1	2	4	2
Healthcare	0	0	1	2	4	4	0	1	4
IT and IT Services	30	35	45	35	43	51	34	29	28
Management Consultancy	0	1	3	1	2	3	7	6	2
Manufacturing Engg.	6	1	4	3	4	8	9	5	13
Media	1	1	1	0	2	0	1	2	1
Projects/Design/ Construction	1	0	1	2	4	1	0	0	0
Retail	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	2	0
Shipping	2	1	2	3	2	1	0	1	0
Telecom	3	5	6	10	8	8	6	4	5
Airline/Travel	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	2	0
Hospitality Services	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Manufacturing Process	7	8	3	4	0	3	2	3	3
Infrastructure	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	2	1
Defence	2	3	5	1	1	1	4	4	1
Education	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
NGOs	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	1
Law	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Industrial/Process Automation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	60	72	78	80	86	101	85	85	85